Readings

Assigned class readings for all students (check Schedule)

• Digital Humanities, ed. by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp. MIT Press, 2012. Open access edition.  Please read the following chapters:  “Humanities to Digital Humanities,” “Emerging Methods and Genres” (with “A Portfolio of Case Studies”–feel free to browse that Portfolio part but do look at it), and “The Social Life of the Digital Humanities: A Portfolio of Case Studies.”
• Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics, ed. by Brett Hirsch, 2012. Open access edition. Please read Matthew Gold, “Looking for Whitman: A Multi-Campus Experiment in Digital Pedagogy.”
• Field Notes for 21^st-Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning. Collectively published by Cathy Davidson et al. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. Selections TBA.

Further reading around our topics  (recommended, not required)

• Hybrid Pedagogy (an open access journal)
• Journal of Online Teaching and Learning (open access)
• Book about everyday game design (link is not full text)
• Book about “spreadable media” with examples of transmedia storytelling forms, games, etc. (link not full text)
• A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age and various news coverage and commentary about it
• New Yorker article about being a better online reader
• Article: “Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren’t the same thing”
• Pew Research report: Millennials are readers, library users
• Frank Rennie and Tara Morrison, E-Learning and Social Network Handbook: Resources for Higher Education, 2nd ed. (New York and London: Routledge, 2013).

Suggestions for literary texts (these can be consulted or used by individual project groups as needed; feel free to add and suggest other texts)

Students choose one longer text (novel or play) plus one shorter text (poem, short story) to work on as a group. Feel free to suggest other texts! (The only stipulation is that they must be well-known to the public for our class purpose.)

Novels 

• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
• Jane Austen, Emma or Persuasion (or any other Jane Austen novel)
• Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
• Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• George Eliot, Middlemarch
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Alice Walker, The Color Purple
• Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
• Albert Camus, The Stranger
• William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
• Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (this is a graphic novel, also recently made into a musical)
• James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
• E.M. Forster, Room with a View or Passage to India
• Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Plays

Consider well-known plays by Sophocles, William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lorraine Hansbury (A Raisin in the Sun), Samuel Beckett, and others

Short stories and fairy tales

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
• James Joyce, a short story from Dubliners
• Eudora Welty
• Flannery O’Connor
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Fairy tales by Charles Perrault; the Grimm Brothers; rewritten (feminist) fairy tales by Angela Carter

Poems

Consider well-known poems by Dante, William Blake, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, etc. etc.